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> Hardware like this has been on the horizon for a while, but it is just now becoming available to early adopters.

Huh?

It's in most (if not all) "enterprise" storage stacks.. are you speaking about a specific type of nvram?



It's now (sort of) available directly. We can stick an NVDIMM in our server and use it as really fast nonvolatile memory, instead of buying a fancy enterprise storage system (Fusion-io, Violin, etc.) that acts like a disk and may contain any of a number of interesting nonvolatile memory technologies.

The price, size, and performance characteristics of non-volatile memory in your server and the various fast disk replacements are very different.


I was thinking of things like these:

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/c/semiconductors/memory-chips/nv...

or these more specifically:

http://www.amazon.com/NetApp-Server-NVRAM4-111-00023-201-000...

So I guess I didn't take your "NVDIMM" usage seriously enough :) Thanks for the explanation.




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